Top Reasons To Attend Tech·Ed Europe 2009

Advancements Windows 7 brings to user productivity, security and PC management - all of which save businesses time and money.

MICROSOFT OFFICE and new ways to maximize business productivity

The Office System track will help you deploy, adopt and develop on business productivity applications.

Learn about deploying Microsoft Office to your users, building pervasive Microsoft Office SharePoint solutions and managing your work with Microsoft Business Productivity Visio.

DEVELOPERS CAN LEARN MORE ABOUT:

STREAMLINING your way to cloud applications

Find out how The Azure™ Services Platform reduces the need for up-front technology purchases, and enables developers to quickly and easily create applications running in the cloud.

SECURITY that helps cut application support costs

Find out how Microsoft’s ForeFront technologies can secure your IT environment faster, and help you write more secure code to eliminate application support costs.

TRUTH about maximizing deployments and search

Find out how SharePoint can help create that central repository, maximizing deployments and search that eliminates multiple versions and misunderstandings about the source of the "truth" on any given project.

IT PROFESSIONALS CAN LEARN MORE ABOUT:

VIRTUALISATION that helps leverage existing investments

Get an in-depth understanding of today’s low-cost virtualization technologies and how they can help you make the most of your current software and hardware investments.

HOSTING for economies of scale

Learn how to take advantage of Microsoft’s hosted services to scale your IT department’s communications and collaboration offering. You’ll also lower your hardware, management and power costs.

UNIFYING to reduce costs and help increase efficiencies

Truly unified communications create a single communication infrastructure. That means reduced costs for PBX enhancements while improving productivity through unified inboxes along with rules that help workers manage interruptions.

DEPLOYMENT - maximize your existing IT infrastructure and do more with what you've got

Learn how to get maximum value out of your existing IT infrastructure.

For those who don’t know, the PDC is all about the future. The near future (.NET 4.0 and Windows 7) and the further future (Windows Azure, “Oslo”, “Dublin”, “Geneva”).

Next year’s PDC (Yes! Apparently, there’ll be one next year) will be also held in Los Angeles from November 17 to 20, and (I suspect) will be the commercial launch of the Azure Services Platform and a better story to tell about “Oslo”.

Tech-ED EMEA Developers, on the other hand, is more about the present and the near future. But, this year, attendees were able to have a sneak peek at what had bee shown at the PDC.

Next year’s Tech-ED EMEA Developers will be held in Berlin from November 2 to 6. Probably, like in 2006, it will be the launch of .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010.